Classes & Workshops

Note: All listings on this page reflect Pacific Time. Unless noted otherwise, classes are held virtually via Zoom.

Class Spotlight

FSAP May Mental Health Awareness Month Events and Initiatives: A series of initiatives & events aimed at promoting mental well-being & fostering a supportive community. These are initiatives that leaders & teams can implement independently.

How Positive Discourse Shapes the Workplace | Wednesday, June 4: This course will explore the science of gratitude, define discourse and uncover how it affects teams, identify the language of leadership, and steps to shift language for a positive team culture.

Digital Detox: Balancing Screen Time for Better Connections | Wednesday, June 25: This session will address the effects of excessive screen time and the importance of regularly disconnecting from technology. It will cover strategies for setting healthy boundaries, establishing a digital detox routine, and managing the constant flow of news and social media.

STEP Deadlines & Resources

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2024/2025 Performance Year (April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025)
– Finalize Criteria: Complete by March 31, 2025
– Manager Review : Complete by April 15 2025

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Upcoming Classes and Workshops

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FSAP - Move into Stillness: African and Middle Eastern Beats Meet Meditation

Online: Friday, May 23, 12:00 - 1:00pm

This immersive experience is designed to refresh and restore, blending music, movement, and meditation in a deeply grounding way. Please ensure you have access to a private space where you feel comfortable moving. This session is ideal for anyone who enjoys moving to music and is looking for a guided yet private experience to recharge during the day.

Brainstorming & Decision-Making in Hybrid Meetings

Online: Wednesday, May 28, 10:00am - 12:00pm

It’s critical to ensure all team members have a voice when it comes to collaborative processes like brainstorming and decision-making.  Facilitating these types of collaborative meetings is especially challenging in a hybrid environment.  In this workshop, we will learn protocols designed for the hybrid environment that lead to high participation, engagement, and include all voices.  In this session, participants will learn and try step by step protocols for productive brainstorming and decision-making in hybrid meetings.

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers

Online: Wednesday, May 28, 1:00 - 3:30pm

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers is the second part in the required live training series on manager and employee performance conversations. This training answers the question: What do I do when my coaching is not improving performance? In this virtual, live, and highly interactive workshop, we will cover: providing productive critical feedback, managing emotions, creating efficient documentation, and holding effective accountability conversations. Managers will also practice having role Accountability Conversations using the UCOP GROW Plus framework.

FSAP - Sensory Tools for Stress Relief: Strategies for Calming the Nervous System

Online : Thursday, May 29, 12:00 - 1:00pm

Feeling overwhelmed by stress? Whether it’s work demands, personal responsibilities, or the challenges of daily life, our nervous system is constantly processing sensory input that impacts how we feel and function. This session will explore techniques to help you:

Understand stress and nervous system dysregulation.
Discover sensory-based strategies (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) for emotional regulation.
Learn practical ways to integrate these tools into your daily routine for greater balance and resilience.

How Positive Discourse Shapes the Workplace

Online: Wednesday, June 4, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Positive discourse fosters a receptive environment is an incredibly powerful resource and motivator to inspire others to think and act more positively. It is a medium through which we make our intentions, values, and beliefs known to others. As leaders, the language we use can make the difference between a high functioning and positive environment, to high turnover on teams and disgruntlement. When leaders have a greater awareness of their discourse that is aligned to core values, they can impact the changes they desire both individually and as a team. This course will explore the science of gratitude, define discourse and uncover how it affects teams, identify the language of leadership, and steps to shift language for a positive team culture.

People Leader Forum - Understanding UCOP Leaves and Accommodations

Online: Friday, June 6, 1:00 - 2:00pm

The People Leader Forum is a monthly opportunity for people managers to connect with one another to develop leadership skills, build community, share best practices, swap strategies for navigating current challenges and learn to better support themselves and their teams.

June 6: Understanding UCOP Leaves and Accommodations
August 1: Difficult Conversations
September 5: Steady Leadership in Turbulent Times: Psychological Tools for Navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity l(VUCA)
October 3: Equity Process Review
November 7: Building Effective Teams

Excel Macro/VBA

Online : Tuesday, June 10, 9:00am - 12:00pm

In this two-part series, you will learn how Macros and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) can be used to customize and automate repetitive tasks in Excel. Macros can automate those tasks to be repeated when needed. Where macros are limited, VBA coding can expand a user’s ability to perform those necessary tasks.

Key concepts for parts one and two includes:

Recording and Executing Macros
Editing Macros
Adding Visual Basic to Enhance Macros
Creating Interactive VBA Procedures
Design Decision-Making VBA
Looping VBA Procedures
Debugging and Error Handling VBA Techniques

We strongly recommend that the learner has successfully completed MS Excel Intermediate or have the requisite skills taught in this class before enrolling. Participants must attend both sessions from 9am-12pm on Tuesday June 10 and 17.

GROWing your Check In Conversations for Managers

Online: Wednesday, June 11, 10:00am - 12:00pm

GROW is a popular coaching framework used around the world for problem solving, goal setting and performance improvement. This interactive session provides managers the opportunity to discuss and practice using GROW framework as a strategy and tool to support engaging STEP checkpoint conversations.

The framework breaks down the conversation into 4 parts: Goal, Reality, Options, & Will:

Determine Goal
Discuss Current Reality
Discuss Options
Determine the Will

Note: The ecourse “GROWing your Checkpoint Conversations must be taken prior to this class”

UCOP Safety: Active Attacker

Online : Wednesday, June 11, 2:00 - 3:00pm

Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this live virtual class in which participants will learn skills and strategies to respond if exposed to active attacker situations. The course will review real-life incidents and discuss options in the event of potential similar encounters.

Navigating Change and Transitions

Online : Thursday, June 12, 10am - 12pm

“The only thing that is constant is change” — Heraclitus who lived 100 years before Plato knew this, and it is still true in today’s world. This workshop will explore the human response to change and stages within the transition process. Participants will expand their capability to successfully navigate through personal and professional changes while utilizing the William Bridges’ Transition Model and Psychological Flexibility framework.

Digital Detox: Balancing Screen Time for Better Connections

Online: Wednesday, June 25, 1:00 - 2:00pm

This session will address the effects of excessive screen time and the importance of regularly disconnecting from technology. It will cover strategies for setting healthy boundaries, establishing a digital detox routine, and managing the constant flow of news and social media. Additionally, the session will explore ways to improve work-life balance and foster stronger connections, both personally and professionally.

UCOP Wellbeing: Lunch and Chat - Emotional Fatigue

Online: Friday, June 27, 12:10 - 12:55pm

Take a mindful pause in your day and join us for this virtual monthly series for individual and collective wellbeing. There will be space for reflection, discussion, and real-life application. Bring your lunch, curiosity and a willingness to connect. All are welcome!

Jun 27: Emotional Fatigue: Physical exhaustion is obvious but emotional burnout will defeat you before you see it. Feelings get tired just like muscles. Together we will explore how to recognize emotional burnout and ways to restore emotional energy.

Additional Topics

Jul 25: Locus of Control – Making Peace and Letting Go
Aug 22: The Happy Secret to Better Work
Sep 26: Vulnerability and Resilience – The Story We Tell
Oct 24: Strategies and Practices to Managing Stress
Nov 21: Thriving in a VUCA World – Embracing Positive Perspectives
Dec 12: The Basics of Practicing Gratitude

Additional Classes

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Registration: Log in to the UC Learning Center using your UCOP login and password. In the Search box on the left, enter the name of the class you want. Select the session you want, then select the Register box and Submit.

Cancellation: You can cancel your registration through the UC Learning Center. We ask that you cancel 48 hours before the scheduled class time so that others may sign up, or contact the Learning & Development Team.

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